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Heathrow lands in Swiss francs, Austria extends green curve

International borrowers dominate this week's flow in the currency
Gulf AT1 deluge will be a challenge, with or without drone strikes

Easing won't be easy for new Fed boss

Lower rates will need lower inflation — and an FOMC consensus

CLOs prop up loan prices, betting on short Iran war

Leveraged loan prices have rallied from their post-war dip, with CLO demand remaining strong despite subdued LBO activity
Gulf AT1 deluge will be a challenge, with or without drone strikes
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  • A broken bond market is incapable of providing emerging markets issuers with funding as the financial effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the oil crash run riot. Official institutions’ support is needed, after the asset class took a brutal beating this week, write Ross Lancaster and Oliver West.
  • Investment grade corporate and financial institution borrowers showed their strength with more than $44bn of US bond issuance in two frenetic windows this week, after central banks took emergency action to avert a global depression.
  • The European Central Bank threw the kitchen sink at the bond market this week with its Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP). Borrowers are assessing their funding programmes, which will rise in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. But they are in no hurry to sell new issues, with investor appetite minimal in the secondary market.